The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-10-07
TINE WEST.

THE WEST.
TIE meeting Of the @. A. B. as st. Louis
was greatly marred BY wot weather.
Much discomfort was experienced BY the
veterans, some Of the proceedings having
TO be postponed.
In consequence Of the late peotracted
drought, the tobacco crops were out short
over . half in the region around Evans
vile, Ind, and the frost injured the grow
ing tobacco still further about ten per cent.
90 that il 10 estimated there will b only
about third Of . crop Potatoes almost
An entire failure. Corn In very bad con-
dillon.
Two women Of Duluth, Mimi, wore chloro-
formed and robbed Of &,255 worth Of dia-
monds the other night
THREE children were suffocated BY IRE
in Frank Hock's house as Nuskegou, Mich,
the other night.
TEE parade Of the g. A. R came OF ct
st. Louis on the 18th. Tho effect was
greatly marred by the drenshing rain
which prevented many OF the veterans
joining in the procession
GKORGE L. ZEI0LxR was found dead at
Dayton, O., recently, after drinking all the
whisky another man would agree to pay
for. Zeigler took twenty-five drinks.
FIRE at Payne, Paulding County, O., the
other day, destroyed 8 row Of business
houses. Loss, $4,000; partially insured.
The elevator at Wheatland, Oak, con-
tanning 5000 bushels Of wheat burned re-
Gently.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAVIS proposed wood
cock and champagne banquet to the Chicago
Anarchists has been declared OF, the Jail
officials refusing to allow It.
A SHORT time ago William Richmond and
Sadie Jameson were publicly married at
the county fair at Youngstown, O.. by a
Pennsylvania preacher. The marriage has
been declared illegal, as the clergyman had
not procured license.
A PLow manufacturers trust was formed
at Chicago recently, about thirty Western
and Northwestern manufacturers signing
the agreement The trust will exercise the
usual ironclad restriction on the trade.
JUDGE McALIsrKR, OF the Chicago court
has refused q writ Of habeas corpus to
Doodle Commissioner Wren on the ground
that the technically urged was worthless.
ADAM RUSSELL and John Clark, cow
boys, INDUCED in shooting affair in Okla
homa the other day. Both were probably
fatally wounded.
ACCORDING to the first report Of the re-
ceiver Of Swan Bros, cattlemen OF
Cheyenne, Wyo., tho liabilities arc SSOS, 999
and tho assets $S9S. $50
MRS. CoLTON, widow Of General Cotton,
Of California, denies that the famous let
tiers written by c. P. Huntington TO her
husband were purloined and offered for
sale by her agents.
THE Polish Roman Catholic Union, in
session in Chicago has boycotted Social
istic Polish weekly newspapers
TIE box factory of Maxwell Bros. and
other buildings in Chicago were destroyed
by fire recently, involving considerable
loss.
BY the fallingof derrick at the brewery
of w. j. Lemp, at st. Louis, recently, Dan
iel Dinners was killed, Ferdinand Neumann
fatally wounded and four other workmeu
seriously injured. The men fell sixty-fve
feet.
MCFEELY, station agent Of the Manitoba
road at Moorhead, Mimi, has been held I'M
der 81, 600 bonds to answer to the charge OF
violating the Interstate Commerce law.
McFeely had refused to transfer wheat
from the Manitoba to the Northern Pacific
tracks.
The American Free Trade League has
been invited to hold its next biennial in
Cleveland.
MUNCHRATH, convicted of manslaughter
in the Rev. Haddock killing at Sioux City,
Iowa. has been sentenced to four years. i'm.
prisonment at Fort Madison.
JUICE T. REA, Of Minnesota, was elected
Commander-in- Chief Of the G. A. X. on the
first ballot at St. Louis on the 3)th. SlO
cum received 153 Anthony G6, Grier IS
Rea 294, Sherman l, and Warner, of Kan.
sas City, 1.
A DoUBLE-HEADER freight train was
wrecked near Toledo, O., on the 3Oth on the
Air Line division of the Lake Shore. Both
engineers and one fireman were injured,
and IN the wreck was found the dead body
of a boy named Tyron, who had been steal
ing a ride.